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Backing Up is Hard to Do?
Joe Barr writes "NewsForge is running a story this morning on a personal hardware/software backup solution for your Linux desktop (NewsForge is owned by Slashdot's parent OSTG). The solution doesn't require a SCSI controller, or tape drive, or the ability to grok a scripting language or archiving tool to work, either. It's based on point-and-click free software. Plus it includes a dead-parrot joke by Linus Torvalds."
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First post!
This is common knowledge to anyone who has seen a woman operate a motor vehicle.
This is not news, slashdot. Tell us something we didn't already know.
Oh, I'm Lain, but, alas, only sometimes.
In South Korea, backups are for old people!
We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it
In Korea, only old people backup.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
try restoring that to a disk that isn't the same size.
Ooh, good one Torvalds. Had me rolling in the aisles there. Dude, j00 r0x0r with your jox0rZ!!!1!1!one!1one!!
In Communist China, the government shoots old people backing up Koreans and makes the family pay for the bullet.
Ambiguous output redirect.
Um, you do realize that is his/her signature, right?
So you're the sick f*ck who keep sending me a tar of all your porn to my backup@gmail.com account?
No, I think that should read "Includes THE dead parrot joke."
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Golden Rule: You must base your worldview entirely on Slashdot headlines. You must ignore the innaccuracy and editorial shortcomings of the Slashdot staff. You must buy into the groupthink of the comment threads. This is of UTMOST IMPORTANCE.
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- Everything involving Linux is flawless and perfect.
- Anything involving Mozilla is flawless and perfect. Ignore that Mozilla marks security flaws as "confidential" and keeps them secret. Ignore that this is something Microsoft is endlessly bashed for. Ignore that Firefox has had several severe security flaws, especially for a browser used by so little of the market (1% according to Google Zeitgeist).
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if i did this with all my pr0n i would spent too much time reading slashdot articles
doing anythin in linux
"HARD"
Though it would have been an abuse of the Mod system, I was tempted to mod you up just for your sig...